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Learned the hard way lesson !

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Larry59

04-25-2008 20:00:10




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Since I got my tractor not to long ago. I have been told by several to be careful. You could flip one over on you! Watch on hills etc,etc! Well yesterday I wanted to move about 44 2x6's 16 ft long to another place here. So there is this little drop off say about 3ft is all to the next level where this stuff set. So I with my double fork on 3 pt. Back down of the edge to the 2x6's and loaded it on the dual hay forks on back. With a smile that I had it all loaded and was ready to go. I started tractor and dropped it in low and started up over this little edge I thought. ... Well about that time the tractor came up on the front off the ground. My heart started pounding real quick as I rose to jump off the tractor. But I got fuel shut down quick and the tractor in front hit the ground with a bang. lol lol laughing now! But was not then and wife was watching and she was screaming and said I almost gave her a heart attack. lol She did tell me that if I ever did that again! There might not be no tractor around this place. lol lol Scared her so bad she got ticked at me! Good thing I did not need to go to restroom at that time. Would have been ugly for me when the tractor went way up in air. lol This is the truth.. lol Lesson learned.. don't load the tractor down so much. Make more trips and not one. lol lol

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Texas Sand

04-27-2008 07:45:38




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 Re: Learned the hard way lesson ! in reply to Larry59, 04-25-2008 20:00:10  
Back last year I was running a 3 point box blade on my 411B and my wife and 3 year old was watching. I got the blade really full of dirt and got some traction and the front raised up pretty good, I was able to throttle down and ease it down smoothly but my little boy got a BIG kick out of it, thought I had a tippin' tractor like on the Cars movie. If you haven't seen that you need to check out the tractor tippin' scene. I'll include a link. Audio/Video clip:Tractor tippin

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Larry59

04-26-2008 19:42:49




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 Thanks all.. lol in reply to Larry59, 04-25-2008 20:00:10  
Well after doing that I had to laugh to. lol But I could not back up the hill cause it dropped down about 8 ft from wall of house and the stuff I had to move was in front of wall. So back was only way to get and load it with out carrying by hand around side of house. lol Oh well.. thanks



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ArleninOr

04-26-2008 10:04:25




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 Re: Learned the hard way lesson ! in reply to Larry59, 04-25-2008 20:00:10  
Makes the pucker factor about 14 on a scale of 1-10. Hang in there Larry and you will learn to laugh like the rest of us.



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JGarner

04-26-2008 04:51:32




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 Re: Learned the hard way lesson ! in reply to Larry59, 04-25-2008 20:00:10  
Larry when I started driving and working with our narrow front SC at 8 years old (about 50 years or so ago) dad would always have some kind of implement on the 3 pt and when pulling or doing something that would tend to cause the front to come up always made me keep the implement low to the ground to stop the tractor from coming up and over. We were pretty flat here in Central Texas but did have a few creeks and wash outs we crossed. Roger is right, when heavily loaded back up the hills and keep the load low. Your forks would probably have stopped you from going over when they hit the ground, but don"t take the risk.

Jim

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Roger 300(Md.)

04-26-2008 04:08:05




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 Re: Learned the hard way lesson ! in reply to Larry59, 04-25-2008 20:00:10  
Hi Larry, In a situation like that with a lot of weight on the back you should be able to back up that slope with no worries about lifting up. The weight will then just add a lot of traction to the rear tires, Roger



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TimBinWV

04-25-2008 21:44:56




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 Re: Learned the hard way lesson ! in reply to Larry59, 04-25-2008 20:00:10  
LOL @ Larry! I'm not laughing at you,so much as I am with you!



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